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[platform-testers] new snapshot available: gzip-1.13.56-e549

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Message #20 received at 77640 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe <at> math.utah.edu>
Cc: 77640 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77640: [platform-testers] new snapshot available:
 gzip-1.13.56-e549
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:16:46 -0700

On 4/10/25 09:59, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I tried that, and gcc reported that O_SEARCH is unknown, and suggested
> ``did you mean 'O_EXCL'?''.

Oh, I thought DragonflyBSD was like other BSDs. My mistake; 
<https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=openat&section=ANY> 
says it has neither O_SEARCH nor O_PATH.

In that case please use O_RDONLY instead of O_SEARCH.


>  I made that change and ran the test:
> 
> 	% gcc dfly-openat-bug-2.c && ./a.out
> 	d/f: File exists
> 
> 	% ls -Rl d
> 	d:
> 	total 0
> 
> The "File exists" report certainly seems like a red herring; one would
> have expected "Directory not writable" or "File cannot be created."

Indeed, if you get the same result with O_RDONLY instead of O_SEARCH 
it's a clear bug, one that gzip cannot work around reliably as far as I 
can see.


> My substitution of O_EXCL may have been incorrect, and I don't find
> O_SEARCH documented in "man openat" on CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 24.
> 
> I can certainly post a note about this on the DragonflyBSD mailing
> list, but will wait until I hear agreement from you.

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